Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was discharged from the hospital more than 2 months after the attack of the nerve agent

Army officers withdraw the bank, where Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found, in Salisbury, Great Britain, on March 23, 2018. (Will Oliver / EPA-EFE / REX / Shutterstock)

After more Two months old, 66 The old Russian spy Sergei Skripal was discharged from the hospital after being poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent. British authorities said Friday.

The former Russian double agent and his daughter were attacked in the southern city of Salisbury on March 4 and found collapsed on a park bench.

A month after the attack, British officials said that Skripal was no longer in critical condition, having joined her daughter in a recovery that could lead the couple to help investigators solve the mystery of exactly how, where and by whom they were poisoned.

"It's fantastic news that Sergei Skripal is well enough to leave Salisbury District Hospital," said Cara Charles-Barks, executive director of the hospital, in a statement Friday.

In response to the March attack, British Prime Minister Theresa May had condemned the poisoning as a reckless and reckless act on the part of Russia in British territory. She and her government say that, in addition to the forensic evidence, Russia is suspect because it had already killed critics abroad.

Skripal was a double agent who sold secrets to Britain. He was convicted and imprisoned in Russia, but released in an exchange of intelligence agents in 2010.

The Foreign Ministry of Great Britain issued a statement in April saying: "let's be clear, this was an assassination attempt using a chemical weapon We know Russian "

But Russia has denied having anything to do with the attack, with the main Russian diplomats insisting that Britain rushed or got into the investigation, or that British agents may have poisoned the father and the daughter to defame Russia, justify increases in military spending or distract residents from the failures of the Brexit negotiations.

William Booth and Karla Adam contributed to this report from London.

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